"The godfather of physical fitness, Jack LaLanne, died at his coastal California home in Morro Bay from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. He was 96.

"He was surrounded by his family and passed very peacefully and in no distress ... and with the football game on Sunday, so everything was normal," his daughter Yvonne LaLanne, 66, told Reuters.

Only two years ago, LaLanne, still a poster boy for vitality, told PEOPLE that young stars such as Britney Spears  who was going through physical and emotional problems at the time  needed to "develop pride and discipline" and watch what they put into their bodies, or as he put it: "the right fuel in the machine."

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